Sleep paralysis is a common condition characterized by transient partial or total paralysis of skeletal muscles and areflexia that occurs upon awakening from sleep or less often while falling asleep. Stimuli such as touch or sound may terminate the episode‚ which usually has a duration of seconds to minutes. This condition may occur in normal subjects or be associated with narcolepsy‚ cataplexy‚ and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal
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Stage 1 Sleep NREM stage 1 sleep serves a transitional role in sleep-stage cycling. Aside from newborns and those with narcolepsy and other specific neurological disorders‚ the average individual’s sleep episode begins in NREM stage 1.Stage 2 sleep lasts approximately 10 to 25 minutes in the initial cycle and lengthens with each successive cycle‚ eventually constituting between 45 to 55 percent of the total sleep episode. An individual in stage 2 sleep requires more intense stimuli than in stage
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The chronic sleep disorder is estimated to affect the lives of at least 25 million adults in the U.S.‚ with many people going undiagnosed or untreated for years. Sleep apnea has been linked to serious health conditions including Type 2 diabetes‚ cardiovascular disease‚ obesity‚ high blood pressure and earlier death. So what should you be on the look for in regards to yourself and family members? Check out these warning signs of sleep apnea provided by board-certified sleep physician and president
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Sleep Apnea This article was on the warning signs of sleep apnea‚ how to distinguish it from normal snoring‚ and what you can do about it. There are many different types of sleep apnea from obstructive sleep apnea‚ central sleep apnea‚ and complex sleep apnea.Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common‚ central sleep apnea is the less common‚ and complex is a mixture of both obstructive and central. Sleep apnea is when breathing is disturbed during sleep. Breathing stops from 10-20 seconds and
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Do you think you could get a decent amount of sleep? A person with sleep apnea does this but doesn’t even know it. How is this possible? Sleep apnea is a medical disorder and if not treated can have serious risks of not getting enough sleep. “Sleep Apnea refers to repeated periods during sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer. The person may repeatedly stop breathing‚ momentarily wake up‚ resume breathing‚ and return to sleep. Repeated awakenings during the night result in
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Top 3 Reasons to Make 2016 the Year to Treat Your Sleep Apnea If the thought of getting a good night of sleep seems like either a distant memory or an unachievable fantasy – or both! – you may suffer from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a serious medical condition‚ and the consequences of allowing this health issue to go untreated could be harmful and even fatal. You and those who sleep near you do not need to spend another night sleeping fitfully. If you’ve been diagnosed with the condition or strongly
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What is sleep? Sleep can be described in many different ways‚ but that does not mean that all of the definitions are correct. Sleep is a periodic‚ natural loss of consciousness where eyes are closed‚ nervous system relatively inactive‚ and muscles are relaxed. One sleep cycle is approximately 90 minutes.There are 4 different stages of sleep. The first 3 stages of sleep are called Non-REM stages. Non-REM stages are the stages where there is no rapid eye movement. Then the last stage is REM sleep where
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Brief Background Sleep is an essential part of life. Everyone needs to get certain hours of sleep in order to maintain good health rather you sleep during the day or the night. When you sleep and fall into REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep) the most vivid and "realistic" dream plays along inside your head. Some can be good and pleasant while other not so much. Dreaming is a heavily experimented subject in the field of psychology. Many theories are out there which some are actually false
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wrote the sonnet To Sleep when he was only twenty years old. In an iambic pentameter‚ the narrator talks directly to Sleep‚ asking "him" to provide escape from reality. With rimes in A-B-A-B structure‚ the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious poem. The author uses several figures of speech to address sleep in a very specific way. More over‚ it is possible that there was a relation between the context and Keat’s personal life. The author first starts by praising sleep‚ introducing it as
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lover‚ Margaret Atwood uses her poem “Variation on the word Sleep” to depict the feelings of love‚ lust and desire. Atwood uses the persona of someone who feels the need to protect as the narrator of her piece. He tone is intimate and personal and her use of imagery captures the audience as Atwood metaphorically describes the speaker’s yearning. Through the use of imagery and an intimate tone‚ Atwood shows multiple variations of the word sleep by incorporating three main themes in the poem: love‚ lust
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